258 NOCTURNAL LEPIDOPTERA FOUND IN CANADA. 



reoua, with discal lunules, and two tolerably distinct transverse black 

 lines. Length of body, .5 to .6 inch; alar expansion, 1.6 inch. 



JB.ah. — Cobourg; beginning of June. Toronto (Dr. Sangster). 

 London (Mr. Reed). 



10. H. coNTRACTA, "Walk — Can. Nat. and Geol. v. 258. (August, 

 1860.) 



" Female. Ferruginous-brown, cinereous beneath. Palpi curved, 

 slender, obhquely ascending, rising higher than the head ; third joint 

 lanceolate, about half the length of the second. "Wings with black 

 undulating lines ; interior line double, the intervening space partly 

 black ; middle line dentate, much dilated on the costa ; exterior line 

 pale-bordered ; marginal points black. Fore-wings with two basal 

 lines. Length of the body, 4 lines ; of the wings, 1 1 lines." 



jEfcS.— Montreal, (Mr. D'Urban). Middle of July. 

 11. H. HERMiNioiDEs, Walk. — Can. Nat. and Geol. v. 259. 



" Female. Whitish-cinereous, slender. Palpi very slender, rising 

 higher than the vertex ; third joint lanceolate, full half the length of 

 the second. Wings with four zigzag lines ; interior and exterior lines 

 black, much more distinct than the other two which are cinereous ; 

 fringes with blackish points. Fore-wings with black orbicular and 

 reniform marks, the former small, the latter large, full. Length of 

 the body 4 lines ; of the wings 10 lines." 



^a5.— Montreal, (Mr. D'Urban). July. 



12. H. OBLiauA, Guen. — Noet. iii. 16., pi. 15. 



Wings very little denticulated, slightly reddish-cinereous, clear, 

 clouded here and there with whitish. A thick spot of ferruginous- 

 red in the place of the reniform. Subterminal line fine, sinuous, well- 

 defined only in the inferior half of the wing, and preceded by a line 

 still more fine and vague. On the inferior wing a similar broad line, 

 curved, with an exterior narrow border of a clear colour ; these lines 

 are ferruginous-red. Some black atoms on the terminal space. Under 

 side very clear reddish-grey, without markings. Palpi slender. Feet 

 almost smooth. Alar exp. 1*6 inch. 



Hah. — North America. 



A supposed variety of this species, from Canada, is thus described 

 by Mr. Walker, (C. B. M. Noct. xiii. 1054) :— "ff. obliqua, var. ? 

 Wood-colour ; thorax varied with fuscous, and with an anterior black 



